Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757954AbXJaTJU (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:09:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754166AbXJaTJN (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:09:13 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:48169 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754020AbXJaTJM (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:09:12 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:05:06 -0400 From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Mathieu Desnoyers , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Randy Dunlap , hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg , Jens Axboe , Prasanna S Panchamukhi , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Anil S Keshavamurthy , "David S. Miller" , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Philippe Elie , "William L. Irwin" , Christoph Lameter , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Subject: Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ? Message-ID: <20071031190505.GA12334@redhat.com> References: <4726649A.5020605@garzik.org> <20071029230409.GB16943@Krystal> <472667F3.3000505@garzik.org> <20071030172442.GA4477@Krystal> <20071030185639.GA9077@Krystal> <20071030204043.GA13547@Krystal> <20071031092907.4a026e72@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071031092907.4a026e72@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 987 Lines: 23 Hi - On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 09:29:07AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > [...] > > This misstates the details. What systemtap has out-of-tree is a list > > of kernel function names (and parameter names), not addresses. This > > list does change somewhat with kernel versions, but we generally keep > > up. We do test with vanilla kernels, and several non-RH distributors > > test with their kernels. It is a problem, but it is manageable. > > yes so please please submit this stuff for mainline inclusion as has > been asked quite a few times before. OK, but I don't recall receiving a clear answer as to how you envision this would work. Would you support distribution of some systemtap script files in some new subdirectory? - FChE - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/